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A "normal" Caribbean hurricane travels from east to west, but Lenny was anything but normal. Spawned south of Cuba in 1999, this late-season storm defied all predictions by moving steadily east toward the Leeward Islands. Eventually building almost to Category 5 strength, Lenny squatted for two days between the Virgin Islands and St. Martin, whipping the ocean with 155 mile-per-hour winds and sixty-foot seas.

A stunningly illustrated portrait of life and death in a hostile, high-altitude environment where no human can survive for long, Everest invites you to join Breashears, his climbers, and his crew as they make photographic history. Author Broughton Coburn traces each step of the team's progress toward a rendezvous with history - and suddenly you're on the scene of a disaster that riveted the world's attention.

Her Blueprints is hosted by Mercy Atukunda, a civil and environmental engineer.The podcast shares untold real-life stories of women in engineering including triumphs and challenges. Each episode dives into relatable topics like gender equity, industry trends, mentorship, cultural inclusion and work-life balance.Through candid thought-provoking conversations, It aims to educate, entertain and inspire the next generation of female engineering professionals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times reporter and best-selling author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an upstanding family in small-town South Carolina. Many of them were doctors, but still, they are struck down by an inscrutable illness. Finally they discover the cause of the disease after a remarkable sequence of providential events. Meanwhile science, progressing for 50 years along a parallel track, handed the Baxleys a question - not a cure but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease.

Nathan Runkle would have been a fifth-generation farmer in his small Midwestern town. Instead, he founded our nation's leading nonprofit organization for protecting factory farmed animals. In Mercy for Animals, Nathan brings us into the trenches of his organization's work; from MFA's early days in grassroots activism, to dangerous and dramatic experiences doing undercover investigations, to the organization's current large-scale efforts at making sweeping legislative change to protect factory farmed animals and encourage compassionate food choices.

A safe space. We'll talk about literally everything and nothing in particular. Hear our views on issues and share your opinions with us. Join us we navigate through life as teenagers and growing into adulthood Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have Mercy on Me is a Christian broadcast, studying the Gospel of Jesus Christ with relevant commentary discussing today's modern social and cultural issues. Hosted by Ricky Parker.